Welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series,

Winning Life's Battles.

Our fight is not against people or circumstances. It's actually against the devil who is real.

But we will overcome if we choose to do things God's way. Love always wins. We overcome evil with good. Now here's

Joyce with today's teaching. Now tonight we're going to talk about how to stay dressed for battle. We are in a war. The mind is the

battlefield. That's the first place that Satan will try to attack you.

Any of you ever feel like you're just having some of the weirdest thoughts and you just think,

when is this going to stop?

Sometimes you even think, where in the world did that come from?

Just like, or sometimes we will have like unrelenting attacks

on our mind of worry or fear or concern over something.

We have to learn how to open our mouth. over something

out of the word like Jesus did that's get thee behind me Satan.

Quote something out of the word like Jesus did

that's recorded in Luke chapter 4 and stop just being passive and not really

acting like a soldier in the Army of God. We are soldiers in the Army of God and Jesus is the captain of the host. He's

given us his name. He's given us his word. He's given us his blood. Now I went for many years and had no idea

that the devil was even real or that he was even a problem. I mean I kind of vaguely knew

there was a devil, but I didn't have any real understanding or revelation on it.

And when I finally began to learn, when somebody began to teach me that the devil was behind

most of my problems, some of them I was creating myself but the devil was

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